history Ch 13-14
During the 1800s, the US Government forced American Indians to live on Reservations. Which of the following is NOT a way in which this discrimination impacted Native Americans?
American Indian children were allowed to wear traditional clothing in reservation schools.
Which of the following best describes Native Americans' situation at the end of the Indian Wars?
Most were forced to live on reservations in the West.
Which statement most accurately portrays the policy of the U.S. government toward Native Americans after the Civil War?
Native American Indians need to move from tribal lands to reservations
How did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
That separate but equal facilities were constitutional.
You are a 25-year-old immigrant living in Massachusetts who dreams of settling in the Great Plains. Which of the following acts of Congress will MOST help you?
The Homestead Act
The Indian Wars that occurred from 1860 until 1890 were mainly the result of
The movement of settlers into the Great Plains
Beginning in the 1880s, many southern states and cities passed Jim Crow laws. What is the common theme with all the Jim Crow Laws?
They allowed African Americans to be treated as second class citizens.
How were many African Americans in the south affected by the Jim Crow Laws?
They placed major restrictions on the rights of African Americans.
What policy did the federal government follow in regard to Native American Indians, in an effort to resolve conflicts with settlers moving west in the 1870s?
force them to live on government reservations further west
The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed all citizens ____________________________ (select all that apply)
full citizenship, due process of the law, freedom from forced labor, equal protection under the law
Which of the following is true of the Homestead Act?
it granted settlers 160 acres of free land if they farmed it for 5 years
Jim Crow Laws and the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson were similar in that both were designed to
limit African American rights and liberties in the South
The main goal of the Americanization school was to
promote assimilation
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause, were used in the South after 1890
to deny suffrage rights to African Americans
The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) helped to institutionalize segregation against African Americans by
upholding "separate but equal" facilities for African Americans
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided free land to settlers, as long as they
wrote a letter claiming the land and stayed for 5 years